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Price Tag of Sin, March 18
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
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He [God] wants us to see the natural beauty in our world. He wants us
to see this, and to educate our children to see that these are an expression
of God’s love to man. Here is a voice speaking to you parents to soften and
subdue your hearts. Keep ever before you the One that made heaven and
earth, that clad the world with its green velvet carpet, that has given us the
lofty trees and clad them in their green foliage. But instead of talking of the
praise of the God that made all these, humanity talks of the things of human
manufacture, and they think of their houses that are so beautiful and their
dresses that are so richly adorned. All this takes time and money, and that
means souls. God has given us money that we may expend it to His glory.
Oh, if the curtain could be rolled back: if we could only get a sight of the
love of God that passeth knowledge. I scarcely dare to touch it; I scarcely
dare to mention the glory that is in reserve. For whom? Every soul that has
been tested and tried and that has an eye single to the glory of God, that will
be loyal to the truth of heaven. The world’s honor, the world’s glory, and the
world’s applause are not worth anything to us.
Every soul that believes in Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour, what
then? Then the love flows from the heart of God to his heart. What does that
heart do then? It turns to serve God and keep His commandments lest it will
be found as Adam and Eve were after their transgression. We cannot afford
that. We cannot afford to sin. Sin is an expensive business....
We want to enter the gates of the eternal city. When the pearly gates are
thrown back we want to hear the voice of welcome. We want to have the
crown of immortal glory placed upon our brow. We want that robe that is
woven in the loom of heaven, white as no fuller on earth can white it; we
want to see the King in His beauty and behold His matchless charms.... I beg
of you to lay up your treasures in heaven. Rid yourself of everything that
will so confuse your mind that you will not be able to distinguish between
the sacred and the common.—
Manuscript 20, March 18, 1894
, “Our Father’s
Care for His Children.”
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